Hump Day ~ Picture of the Day ~ Dryer Sheets ~ Corn Pudding ~ Linda (Watterlond) Terror ~ Sunset ~ National Cheese Pizza Day

Good 48º hazy little smokey morning. 

 

 

Yesterday it stayed clear until afternoon when it got a little hazy and we hit 97º.

 

 

Picture of the Day

1930 construction workers napping on a beam on a skyscraper they were building! YIKES!

 

 

 

Interesting what you can do with dryer sheets...

 

1. Repel rodents: Believe it or not, rodents cannot stand the smell of dryer sheets! If you’re trying to keep mice and rats at bay, just tuck a few scented dryer sheets in the spots in your home where they like to lurk.

2. Remove deodorant stains: There are few things more annoying than pulling on a clean shirt and accidentally covering it with your deodorant. Luckily, a few swipes with a dryer sheet should remove those powder marks in no time flat.

3. Clean your car: After driving long distances, the front of your car can look like a bug graveyard. Wipe it clean with a wet dryer sheet to rid yourself of all those guy guts without harming the nice finish on your ride.

4. Clean dry spills: Because of their fibers, dryer sheets are great for wiping up dry messes, like flour. The spill will have no problem adhering to the sheet and your mess will be gone with barely any effort!

5. Dusting: Dryer sheets weren’t made to dust your home, but they should have been! Not only can they clean up dust in a thrice, but they can also help keep dust from settling on surfaces for weeks at a time.

6. Sharpen scissors: Don’t waste a lot of money on an expensive knife-sharpening stone when dryer sheets work just as well—and they cost a fraction of what you’d pay otherwise! Just wipe your scissor blades (or other knives) carefully on the sheet.

7. Clean glass: If your computer screen is a mess or your TV screens are looking dingy, just wipe them down with dryer sheets. They will quickly and safely leave your screens clean and scratch-free to boot!

8. Remove pet hair: If you own a pet, then you know how much their fur can be the bane of your existence. To remove it from your clothes and couch cushions, simply swipe a dryer sheet over the area.

9. Scent filter: Do you notice a stale smell from your air conditioning or heating vents? That’s really easy to fix with dryer sheets. Just tuck one inside of the vent for fresh-smelling air in a snap!

10. Clean your toilet: If your toilet’s due for a cleaning but you’re fresh out of toilet bowl cleaner, don’t worry. Simply drop two dryer sheets in your toilet instead. Let them sit a while, then remove and scrub for a pristine pot.

11. Swiffer refills: We all dread the moment we run out of Swiffer refills, but dryer sheets can help in a pinch. Strap on a few dryer sheets to your Swiffer sweeper and be amazed at how quickly and cleanly they pick up dirt!

12. Freshen shoes: Our shoes do us the great favor of protecting our feet every single day. Go ahead and return that favor by stuffing them with dryer sheets when you aren’t wearing them to help keep them smelling nice and fresh.

13. Remove burned food: This one is so good! If you left a pot on the stove too long and it has burned food stuck to it, ditch the sponge and try scrubbing with a dryer sheet instead. Watch all that burned-up gunk fall away.

14. Reduce frizz: If you struggle with little hairs that just can’t be tamed, try rubbing a dryer sheet over your brush before tackling your mane. You’ll be impressed by the silky smooth results!

15. Clean your shower: Soap scum is such a tough thing to get rid of, but it doesn’t have to be! Just use a moist dryer sheet and watch that soap scum melt away. Your shower will be sparkling before you know it.

16. Freshen your car: Even if you keep your vehicle clean and tidy, you can still get stuck with weird odors from time to time. Tuck dryer sheets underneath the front seats and your car will smell just divine!

17. Keep luggage smelling fresh: After unpacking from a long trip, put a few dryer sheets in your empty luggage before storing it. That way it will have a pleasant scent when you open it up again for your next trip!

18. Repel mosquitoes: Stuck with a serious case of bug bites after your last summer stroll? Next time, tuck a dryer sheet or two inside of your pockets or tie one to your belt; mosquitoes hate the scent!

 

 ** It works super keeping mosquitoes away!

 

 

Corn Pudding

 

 

3 10oz pkgs frozen corn, thawed

3 cups milk

4 large eggs

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 cup all purpose flour

1/4 t. ground nutmeg

coarse salt

1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh chives

 

Preheat oven to 350º. In a blender, puree half the corn with 2 cups milk until almost smooth. In a large bowl, whisk eggs with sugar, flour, nutmeg, and 2 teaspoons salt; whisk in pureed corn mixture, along with remaining corn and 1 cup milk.

 

Pour mixture into a 9-by-13-inch (or other shallow 4-quart) baking dish; sprinkle with chives. Bake until golden brown around edges and very loosely set, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

 

** This pudding can be baked up to 2 days in advance. Cool completely, then cover and refrigerate. Reheat in a 400-degree oven until a pairing knife inserted in center comes out warm, 25 to 30 minutes.

 

 

 

Special birthday today..... Linda (Watterlond) Terror, friend from Kindergarten through high school. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA!!!

 

We were in Brownies, Girl Scouts, and this is us as grammar school safety monitors.

 

 

 

Historically this date....

1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

 

 

 

1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

 

 

 

1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

... really interesting read.

 

 

 

1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

 

 

 

1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.

 

 

 

1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

 

 

And births this date include.....

1846 – Jack Daniel, Distiller (d. 1911)

Mmmmmm, Jack in the Black!

 

1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)

 

 

1937 – William Devane, American actor

1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor

 

 

1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)

 

 

1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress

 

 

1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor

 

 

 

Later with the smoke moving back in, the sunset......

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Hump Day. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

On September 5th, one of the most popular varieties of pizzas gets its day of honor.  Hold the toppings, please. It’s National Cheese Pizza Day!

• In ancient Greece, the Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs, and cheese which some believe is the beginning of the “pizza”.
• In Byzantine Greek, the word was spelled “πίτα”, pita, meaning pie. 
• A sheet of dough topped with cheese and honey, then flavored with bay leaves was developed by the Romans.
• The modern pizza had its beginning in Italy as the Neapolitan flatbread.
• The original pizza used only mozzarella cheese, mainly the highest quality buffalo mozzarella variant which was produced in the surroundings of Naples.
• It was estimated that the annual production of pizza cheese in the United States in 1997 was 2 billion pounds.
• The first United States pizza establishment opened in 1905 was in New York’s Little Italy. 
• Pizza has become one of America’s favorite meals.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Order up or bake up your own cheese pizza to celebrate National Cheeze Pizza Day!

Clear/Hummingbirds ~ Tucker and Sami ~ Pictures of the Day (Dash) ~ Babies Mailed Through US Postal Service ~ Spinach and Artichoke Dip Pasta ~ Loren Otto ~ Patty (Hickey) McNaughton ~ Karen Baertschiger ~ National Wildlife Day

Good 48º very slightly hazy sky morning.

 

 

Yesterday stayed clear like it has been for the last 9 days or so. We warmed to 93º.

 

 What looks like smoke in the trees, was actually a smudge on my camera lens! 

 

Amazing, with all the smoke and fires. For about the last 4 days the hummingbird population here has decreased. We had 4-5 hummers per feeder for awhile with all the smoke, I know they were getting away to a less smokey place. I was filling the feeders every couple to three days. Now there are only about 3 hummers hanging out here!

 

Today is the first day back to school for Sami and Tucker. Tucker is now in high school, freshman. Sami is in the 5th grade.

 

 

 

Pictures of the Day

While we traveled to and from Jacksonville on Sunday, Sami, who likes to take pictures, had my camera and took the following....

This was at Schoolhaus Brewhaus ... while we ate he slept in his bed. The waitress brought him a dish of water....

 She totally took about 40 photos! When we got back to my house Dash was so happy to run around with Dude!

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting about babies mailed through the US Postal Service....

 

Once-upon-a-time, it was legal to mail a baby in the United States. It happened more than once and by all accounts, the mailed tots arrived no worse for wear. Yes, "baby mail" was a real thing.

 

On January 1, 1913, the then Cabinet-level U.S. Post Office Department — now the U.S. Postal Service — first started delivering packages. Americans instantly fell in love with the new service and were soon mailing each other all sorts of items, like parasols, pitchforks and, yes, babies.

As documented in the article, “Very Special Deliveries,” by curator of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Nancy Pope, several children, including one “14-pound baby” were stamped, mailed and dutifully delivered by the U.S. Post Office between 1914 and 1915.

The practice, noted Pope, became affectionately known by letter carriers of the day as "baby mail."

According to Pope, with postal regulations, being few and far between in 1913, they failed to specify exactly “what” could and could not be mailed via the still very new parcel post service. So in mid-January 1913, an unnamed baby boy in Batavia, Ohio was delivered by a Rural Free Delivery carrier to its grandmother about a mile away. “The boy’s parents paid 15-cents for the stamps and even insured their son for $50,” wrote Pope.

 

Despite a “no humans” declaration by the Postmaster General, at least five more children were officially mailed and delivered between 1914 and 1915.

If the very idea of mailing babies sounds sort of reckless to you, don’t worry. Long before the then-Post Office Department had created its “special handling” guidelines for packages, children delivered via “baby-mail” got it anyway. According to Pope, the children were “mailed” by traveling with trusted postal workers, often designated by the child’s parents. And fortunately, there are no heartbreaking cases of babies being lost in transit or stamped “Return to Sender” on record.

The longest trip taken by a “mailed” child took place in 1915 when a six-year-old girl traveled from her mother’s home in Pensacola, Florida, to her father’s home in Christiansburg, Virginia. According to Pope, the nearly 50-pound little girl made the 721-mile trip on a mail train for just 15 cents in parcel post stamps.

According to the Smithsonian, its “baby mail” episode pointed out Postal Service’s importance at a time when traveling long distances was becoming more important but remained difficult and largely unaffordable for many Americans.

Perhaps even more importantly, noted Ms. Pope, the practice indicated how the Postal Service in general, and especially its letter carriers had become “a touchstone with family and friends far away from each other, a bearer of important news and goods. In some ways, Americans trusted their postmen with their lives.” Certainly, mailing your baby took a lot of​ plain old trust.

The Post Office Department officially put a stop to “baby mail” in 1915, after postal regulations barring the mailing of human beings enacted the year before were finally enforced.

 

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Pasta

 

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SaPrep Time:10 minutes Cook Time:15 minutesTotal Time:25 minutes Servings: 4

All of the flavors of spinach and artichoke dip in the form of a pasta!

 

• 8 ounces penne 
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 3 tablespoons flour 
• 2 cups milk
• 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/4 cup Parmesan, grated
• 1/2 cup mozzarella, shredded
• 1  14 ounce can artichoke hearts, coarsely chopped
• 8 ounces spinach, coarsely chopped
• salt and pepper to taste

 

1. 
   Option: For One-Pan: Make this a one-pan meal by adding 8 ounces of pasta and 2 1/4 cups broth or water (or 1 cup of rice and 2 cups broth or water) to the sauce in step 5 and simmer, covered, until cooked, about 12 minutes (or 20 minutes for rice).Start cooking your pasta as directed on the package.
2. Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, add the onion and cook until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
3. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about a minute.
4. Sprinkle in the flour and cook for a few minutes while stirring.
5. Add the milk and cook while stirring until it thickens up, about 1-2 minutes.
6. Add the cheese and cook while stirring until they melt, about 1-2 minutes.
7. Add the artichokes and spinach and cook while stirring until the spinach wilts, about 1-2 minutes.
8. Season with salt and pepper to taste, remove from heat and enjoy.

Option: Add bacon or sun-dried tomatoes, chicken, tuna etc.
Option: Add red pepper flakes, hot sauce or cayenne for some heat.

 

 

 

Three special birthdays today.........

Loren Otto, Marine Corps League, is celebrating. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOREN!

 

Also today is the birthday of Patty (Hickey) McNaughton. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATTY!!!

 

Patty is the daughter of Jerry's pals John and Susan.

 

AND........ my pal Karen Baertschiger, aka Sugar Bear is celebrating, again. Enjoyed the luncheon last week SB!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! xo

 

With her sons James and Herman Jr.

 

Historically this date......

1781 – Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.

 

1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

 

1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

 

1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

 

1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

 

 

And births this date include...
 1913 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress

 

 

 1981 – Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Tuesday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

National Wildlife Day is observed annually on September 4th.  

This National Day is an opportunity to learn more about endangered species, preservation and conservation efforts around the world.  Zoos, aviaries, and marine sanctuaries provide a variety of ways to get involved.  From participating in presentations and volunteering to fund-raise for rehabilitation services, these facilities have something for everyone to learn.  

HISTORY

Colleen Paige, the Pet Lifestyle Expert, and author founded National Wildlife Day in 2005 in memory of wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin.  The day serves to bring global awareness and education concerning the number of endangered animals and the need for conservation and preservation.